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  <dc:contributor>Timothy D. Straub</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Molly S. Wood</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2019</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The USGS Water Mission Area’s Sediment Science Program provides leadership, training, and&amp;nbsp;methods development in fluvial sediment science for the USGS and its external partners.&amp;nbsp;Overarching objectives of the USGS Sediment Science Program (which includes the Federal&amp;nbsp;Interagency Sedimentation Project) include: 1) developing and promoting innovative sediment&amp;nbsp;monitoring techniques that result in cost effective, accurate, and high resolution fluvial&amp;nbsp;sediment data for the Nation; 2) advancing sediment science through collaboration with&amp;nbsp;external agencies to ensure USGS science and leadership directions are aligned with external&amp;nbsp;agency and public needs; and 3) providing technical support to sediment data collectors and&amp;nbsp;scientists, in an effort to improve quality assurance/quality control practices and efficiencies in&amp;nbsp;field data collection and analysis.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC) and Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Strategic directions of the USGS water mission area’s fluvial sediment science program</dc:title>
  <dc:type>text</dc:type>
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